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Are you thinking of starting your own business but need some advice?
 The Vision Derbyshire Business Start-Up Support Scheme can help. A team of local expert business advisers offers free, one-to-one impartial support and advice covering a wide range of topics tailored to your needs. Grant funding is also available if you meet the eligibility criteria.
Talking to a business adviser can be invaluable in helping you to make important decisions about your business idea and to put plans in place.
The team has supported more than 1,000 residents across Derbyshire to build plans to start their own business. Several of these are now employing more people and going from strength to strength, including Suzanne Lloyd, of Virtue Virtual Assistance, Chesterfield. She said: “Working with a business adviser has helped me challenge my own perceptions of what opportunities may be available. Doors have opened that I didn’t know would be possible. The support I’ve received has been invaluable.”
This scheme is running in the Amber Valley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, High Peak, North East Derbyshire and South Derbyshire local authority areas. Funding has been received through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to continue until at least March 2025.
If you support someone with a learning disability and/or who is autistic, we want to let you know that we’re considering a proposal to consult on changing the support we provide.
On Thursday (11 April), councillors will be asked to agree to seek people’s views on plans to redesign the way we provide day opportunities and short breaks.
Following a previous consultation, we transformed services to create new day opportunities to help people with learning disabilities and/or autism lead safe and fulfilling lives in their community.
This work has shown that they want to be as independent as possible with equal access to opportunities and services such as housing, leisure activities, jobs, health and transport.
To help us get the best value for money for our services, at a time of increasing financial pressures for councils nationally, we need to review how people’s assessed care needs are met and to what extent we provide those services ourselves.
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If you’re an unpaid carer, did you know there are lots of activities, training and events which are free for you to take part in this month?
From soap making and guided walks to reading groups and a session on understanding dementia, there’s lots on offer hosted by Derbyshire Carers Association (DCA).
Take a look at what’s available and book yourself a place.
The Derbyshire All Age Carers Support Service – which is delivered by DCA on our behalf – includes:
- Information and advice helpline
- Face to face, home visits and telephone support
- Planning for emergencies
- Support groups
- Carer’s assessments
- Skills for caring
- Financial advice and grants
- Social activities and events
- Volunteering and more.
Follow DCA on Facebook and X for news, updates, and events.
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Interested in reading about our ambitions, values and objectives for the year ahead?
Then take a look at our updated Council Plan for 2024 to 2025.
Key sections also highlight the outcomes we seek to achieve and the approach we will take to achieving them by working with and for communities and in collaboration with partners.
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Will you help make history and vote in the first ever election for a mayor for the East Midlands on Thursday 2 May?
Derbyshire, Derby, Nottinghamshire and Nottingham have opened the door to a massive investment in transport, skills, housing and the environment after securing a deal for a new combined authority – the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA).
EMCCA has been formed by Derbyshire County Council, Derby City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council, and will be led by a mayor, similar to areas like the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire.
The mayor will have new powers and resources to begin a long-term process of growing the region’s economy by investing in skills that lead to better jobs, transport that works better across the region, housing where it’s needed, and an economy equipped to deal with net zero.
Its small team will have specific responsibilities – housing, skills, transport and the environment – and the transfer of powers means it will be doing work previously carried out by government. It will collaborate with councils and will not duplicate what they do or provide services that are best delivered locally.
For more information about the campaign and how to vote visit www.voteeastmidlandsmayor.co.uk
Keep up to date with news and information on social media #VoteEastMidsMayor – Facebook EastMidsCCA, X @EastMidsCCA, Instagram @EastMidsCCA, LinkedIn East Midlands Combined County Authority and YouTube @EastMidlandsCCA
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